@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, give it a shot. At worst you know that you have to continue your quest. :-)

Fun fact, during a semester break I was actually a little bored, so I just started reading the Qt documentation. I didn’t plan on using Qt for anything, though. I only looked at the docs because they were on my bucket list for some reason. Qt was probably recommended to me and coming from KDE myself, that was motivation enough to look at the docs just for fun.

The more I read, the more hooked I got. The documentation was extremely well written, something I’ve never seen before. The structure was very well thought out and I got the impression that I understood what the people thought when they actually designed Qt.

A few days in I decided to actually give it a real try. Having never done anything in C++ before, I quickly realized that this endeavor won’t succeed. I simply couldn’t get it going. But I found the Qt bindings for Python, so that was a new boost. And quickly after, I discovered that there were even KDE bindings for Python in my package manager, so I immediately switched to them as that integrated into my KDE desktop even nicer.

I used the Python KDE bindings for one larger project, a planning software for a summer camp that we used several years. It’s main feature was to see who is available to do an activity. In the past, that was done on a large sheet of paper, but people got assigned two activities at the same time or weren’t assigned at all. So, by showing people in yellow (free), green (one activity assigned) and red (overbooked), this sped up and improved the planning process.

Another core feature was to generate personalized time tables (just like back in school) and a dedicated view for the morning meeting on site.

It was extended over the years with all sorts of stuff. E.g. I then implemented a warning if all the custodians of an activitiy with kids were underage to satisfy new the guidelines that there should be somebody of age.

Just before the pandemic I started to even add support for personalized live views on phones or tablets during the planning process (with web sockets, though). This way, people could see their own schedule or independently check at which day an activity takes place etc. For these side quests, they don’t have to check the large matrix on the projector. But the project died there.

Here’s a screenshot from one of the main views: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/k3man.png

This Python+Qt rewrite replaced and improved the Java+Swing predecessor.

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention
Jessica Washington,  Political Reporter  -  The Intercept

Stephan: The stories that are coming out of the Trump concentration camps are each more horrible than the ones of the previous day. This is a United States we have never seen before, and I think it is very important that this is going on with no real response from the Republicans in Congress.

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Immigrants nationwide placed in solitary confinement for weeks, report says
Steph Solis ,  Staff Writer  -  msn | Axios

_Stephan: The United States is now running concentration camps. They don’t call them that, but as accurate information about their living conditions comes out, it is clear that is what they are. This is all part of the fascist coup, engineered by Trump, his vassals, the Republican Party, and the Supreme Court they have created toge … ⌘ Read more

Renowned photographer tried to avoid trespass by staying below high-tide mark
Wildlife photographer Rob Blakers pleads guilty to trespassing after admitting he camped beyond the boundary line whilst visiting Robbins Island to observe migratory birds. ⌘ Read more

@zvava@twtxt.net There would be only one hash for a message. Some to be defined magic date selects which hash to use. If the message creation timestamp is before this epoch, hash it with v1, otherwise hammer it through v2. Eventually, support for v1 could be dropped as nobody interacts with the old stuff anymore. But I’d keep it around in my client, because why not.

If users choose a client which supports the extensions, they don’t have to mess around with v1 and v2 hashing, just like today.

As for the school of thought, personally, I’d prefer something else, too. I’m in camp location-based addressing, or whatever it is called. There more I think about it, a complete redesign of twtxt and its extensions would be necessary in my opinion. Retrofitting has its limits. Of course, this is much more work, though.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m in Standard Camp. ;-)

Why is it that I hate packing so badly? I gotta have to brace myself up to start that now.

The outlook is poor, rain all the way until maybe the last day of summer camp. Definitely bringing my gummies, they are well needed, the weather report announces several days with up to 14 liters per square meter.

After many weeks and probably at least a hundred hours of research, discussions and in-person viewing, I think I’ve finally come up with my Final Choices (shortlist) of a Hybrid Camper / Caravan that I think will suit my family and that I’ll enjoy (far less work for me to setup and teardown). The one at the top of the list I’m leaning towards os the SWAG SCT16 Family 4B

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I think I understand now. Americans do not go camping, we do recreational activities. I don’t think campers are a thing here, but RVs (Recreational Vehicles) are. That’s why it would never cross my mind to get anything with fabric, that folds. No mate, we get a house on wheels, with a million miles engine. 🤣

Other than that, it looks nice!

As promised, here’s some photos of love you!! camping trip to Canarcon George in QLD, Australia.

Trump Disappeared Them to El Salvador. Now, They’re Being Erased by Immigration Courts.
Isabela Dias,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The Trump Gestapo shipped hundreds of men, mostly innocent of any crime except being in the United States without proper documentation, to concentration camps maintained by other countries. Now, the Trump immigration courts are “disappearing” them permanently. Will they ever be released? Maybe when the U. … ⌘ Read more

What’s your go-to message queue in 2025?

The space is confusing to say the least.

Message queues are usually a core part of any distributed architecture, and the options are endless:
Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis {Pub-Sub, Streams}, Cloud Providers {AWS SQS, Kinesis; Google Pub/Sub; Azure Event Hubs, Service Bus}, Pulsar, ZeroMQ… and then there’s the “just use Postgres” camp for simpler use cases.

I’m trying to make sense of the tradeoffs between:

• async fire-and-forget pub/sub vs. sync RPC-like point … ⌘ Read more

Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE
Nick Turse, Jonah Valdez,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Here is yet another report about Trump’s attempt to use your tax dollars to “disappear” people into a global network of concentration camps. I think this is a very big deal that is not getting anywhere near the media attention it should. I question whether a large percentage of Americans who get their news from MAGAt Media even know this is … ⌘ Read more

Trump is Building A Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE
Nick Turse,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Trump is reputed to read very few books, but the one he has clearly studied in Hitler’s Mein Kampf, since all the trends he has created to reshape the United States come from Hitler. Just as the Nazis created concentration camps in the countries they controlled so Trump, as this article describes, is creating an international a … ⌘ Read more

White House looking for other countries to accept deportees
Gregory Svirnovskiy,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

Stephan: Just as Hitler did, Trump is looking for other countries where he can establish concentration camps, paying for them with citizen tax dollars. Hitler’s principal target population was Jews, whereas Trump’s is immigrants. But both actually imprisoned anyone who opposed them.

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Hitler’s First 100 Days — And Trump’s
Werner Lange,  Contributing Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Yet another view on the comparison of Hitler and Trump. I first began to see this comparison after I read Project 2025, and realized the role of the other. Hitler chose Jews and ovens. Trump chose immigrants, and disappearing them to a concentration camp where taxpayer dollars pay the gulag fee; it is tidier. Hitler liked swastika arm bands, Trump likes Red baseball caps. Otherwise what is h … ⌘ Read more

How useful are portable battery power stations for the home?
Similar to mains power you can take with you, and able to be topped up by solar, battery stations are a new option when it comes to camping power or household back-up. ⌘ Read more

White House embraces Abrego Garcia fight
Brett Samuels,  Staff writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: The United States has come to the abyss of dictatorship. In the next three weeks we are going to learn whether Donald Trump must follow the laws as the courts decide or whether Donald Trump now defines the laws. Whether we remain a democracy or become a formal dictatorship. When Hitler took power in 1933, 53 days after coming into power he started opening concentration camps. The first one wa … ⌘ Read more

El Salvador denies senator visit with mistakenly deported man: Van Hollen
Sareen Habeshian,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: The utterly incompetent Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and her $50,000 Rolex, had no problem getting into the El Salvador concentration camp and posing in front of the inmates. But Democrat Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, when he went to El Salvador, was denied any access. Dictator Trump’s deal with Dictator Nayib B … ⌘ Read more

‘The Homegrowns Are Next’: Trump Promises to Send American Citizens to El Salvador in Harrowing Comments to Bukele
Colby Hall,  Founding Editor  -  Mediate

_Stephan: I am surprised the media isn’t saying out loud what is actually going on. American dictator Donald Trump has made a deal with dictator Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to run a concentration camp for which he will pay him $6,000 per person of your tax doll … ⌘ Read more

U.S. deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite court order
Luke Garrett,    -  npr

_Stephan: You have undoubtedly seen or read something about the shipment of Venezuelans to what amounts, by all accounts, to an El Salvadoran concentration camp, and the ruling by a federal judge that this was an unconstitutional act by psychopath Trump. Four things stood out about this sequence of events for me. First, none of these individuals had any of th … ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Just before the pandemic, we watched Uncle Bob videos once a week in the lunch break. While almost all of my old teammates agreed with his views, I partially found them to be very odd and even counterproductive.

I didn’t come across John Ousterhout or any of his work before, at least not deliberately. So, this document is my first contact.

I only finished the chapter on comments and I totally agree with John so far. This document just manifests to me how weird Bob’s view is on certain subjects.

I always disagreed with the concept of a maximum method length. Sure, generally, shorter functions are probably better, but it always depends. And I’ve certainly seen super short methods that just made the code flow even worse to follow. While “one function should only do one thing” is a nice general rule, I’m 100% in team John with the shown examples. There are cases, where this doesn’t help readability at all. Not even close.

To me, a function always has to justify its existence. Either by reusing it at least at another place or by coming up with dedicated tests for it. But if it is just called once and there are no tests, I almost always decide against it. Personally, I don’t mind longer methods. We just recently had a discussion about that and I lost against two other workmates who are more in Uncle Bob’s camp, they refactored one medium sized method into three very short ones. Luckily, we agree on most other topics.

Lol, what!? The shorter the method, the longer the variables inside? I first thought I misread or the writeup mixed it up. I’ll always do it the other way around.

I’ve been also bitten badly by outdated comments in the past, but Bob must have worked on really terrible projects to end up with such an attitude to dislike comments. Oh well. No doubt, I’ve come across by several orders of magnitude more useless comments, in my experience (autogenerated) JavaDocs fall in the category more frequently than not. So, I know that there are different types of comments. A comment doesn’t automatically mean that it is good and justified.

But I also partially agree with Bob and John and think that a good name has a proper chance to save a comment. Though, when in doubt, I go John’s route and use a shorter name with a comment rather than use a kilometer long identifier. Writing good comments typically takes some time, sometimes much longer than writing the code. It regularly takes me several minutes. It’s a hard art.

I perhaps should read up on John’s work. He seems to be more reasonable and likeminded. :-) Let me continue to complete this document.

Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’
Dasha Burns and Myah Ward,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: This is straight out of Hitler’s takeover of Germany’s democracy, an evil scheme cooked up by fascist Erik Prince and his cohort of fascist military contractors. I hope you realize that under Trump we are less than two months into the Trump coup at best a pse … ⌘ Read more

Trump admin to use military sites for immigrant detention, starting with Fort Bliss
Renne Estrada,  Staff Writer  -  KFOX14

_Stephan: In a further mirroring of Hitler’s takeover of German democracy and his creation of concentration camps, Trump’s takeover of American democracy is now planning to create American concentration camps at military bases both within the United States and outside the country at Guantanamo, Cuba. Tens of thousands of … ⌘ Read more

‘He’s Building a Concentration Camp’: Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo
Jon Queally,   Managing Editor   -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The Trumpian coup, like all fascist movements, is building a concentration camp for the people it wants to persecute. And, of course, they’re putting it in a location where none of their opponents can oversee what is happening. The Nazis did the same thing. Think about it:  30,000 peo … ⌘ Read more

Trump signs tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China
Brett Samuels ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Fascism like a lethal cancer is growing in the United States. Government agents are roaming the streets grabbing immigrants, families are being separated. concentration camps are being set up, federal agencies are being dismantled, the economy is about to go in to recession with tariffs, and allies are breaking away. Say goodbye to American democracy readers. It is disappearing … ⌘ Read more

Trump orders opening of migrant detention center at Guantánamo Bay
Léonie Chao-Fong and Tom Phillips,  Reporters  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The incompetence of “king” Trump and his administration is becoming glaringly obvious as you have probably already learned. But let’s not overlook “king” Trump’s scheme to create concentration camps. Here, in a British newspaper, is an account of what is being done in at the Naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Similar p … ⌘ Read more

Nearly half of GOP voters support using military to put immigrants in camps
Russell Contreras,    -  Axios

_Stephan: If the criminal a majority of Americans have chosen for their President, a man who sees himself more as a king than a President, does as he says he will do because he knows that half of his MAGAt voters support the use of the military in his deportation schemes by the end of this coming week we may see members of the armed forces invo … ⌘ Read more

‘Concentration Camps’: Border Czar Says Trump to Detain Migrant Families
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Tom Homan looks like a thug and, I suspect, has been chosen by Trump because he has no qualms about behaving like one. I fear that on 21 January Homan will start the trend Trump has constantly promised, and that it is going to provoke a civil uprising in Blue states and in Red states it may become so intense that, as in the K … ⌘ Read more

Présidentielle américaine : le camp démocrate se crispe
Au contraire des sondages qui sont sont toujours bâtis sur différentes méthodes statistiques (quotas par exemple), les images suivantes sont les paris Trump vs Harris, dans lesquels des individus ont mis de l’argent sur leur candidat préféré ou celui qu’ils espèrent voir gagner. Ceci veut dire que beaucoup de gens estiment (ou préfèrent) voir Trump […] ⌘ Read more

The best outdoor fun in Salt Lake City around KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024
Heading to KubeCon a bit early, or planning on staying around for the weekend? The options for outdoor fun are endless, even if it’s not quite ski season. From winter hiking to snowshoeing, bobsledding, winter camping or even… ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net I am also in camp no edit signals. deletes only breaks the head of a thread. all the replies are unaffected.

@bender@twtxt.net I am also in camp no edit signals. deletes only breaks the head of a thread. all the replies are unaffected.

Leveraging technology on the frontlines of emergency: How communities of developers are taking action
From sending emergency alerts about nearby fires to mapping services in refugee camps, developers are taking action to solve global problems.

The post [Leveraging technology on the frontlines of emergency: How communities of developers are taking action](https://github.blog/2024-06-12-leveraging-technology-on-the-frontlines-of-emergenc … ⌘ Read more

How to Download & Install Windows 11 LTSC ISO
Some advanced users, IT staff, and enterprise users may have a need to download, install, and use Windows 11 LTSC, whether that’s for installing into a virtual machine environment running on a Mac or PC, a dual boot situation with an Intel Mac using Boot Camp, or even installing directly onto a PC, medical device, … Read More ⌘ Read more

Macron : Une guerre pour cacher la déroute ?
Les sondages sont assez clairs : c’est la déroute pour le camp macronien. Ainsi, non seulement Mélusine Hayer ne parvient pas à décoller dans les intentions de vote au point qu’elle chatouille à nouveau ses plus bas niveaux depuis qu’elle est entrée en lice, mais en plus réussit-elle la performance de propulser Bardella, le concombre endimanché […] ⌘ Read more

How to Install Windows WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
If you’re a Windows user, whether on a PC, in a dual boot environment with Boot Camp on an Intel Mac, or you’re running Windows 11 in a virtual machine on an Apple Silicon Mac, you may have an interest in installing Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL. Windows Subsystem for Linux puts a full … Read More ⌘ Read more

Motivation Monday: camping etiquette
A Fort DeSoto park ranger joined Good Day to talk about camping etiquette on this Motivation Monday. ⌘ Read more

L’Occident, le camp du Bien
Un article de Henry Bonner La guerre à Gaza met en avant comment les désastres pour certains créent un prétexte pour d’autres à des interventions, à des programmes, à des réponses… Elle montre la grande différence entre la vie de tous les jours… et la vie dans les journaux. Dans le quotidien des gens, ils […] ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Me too! I really wanted to do some winter camping this year, but I have not been motivated enough to pack up and go when the weekend comes - but one day soon I will head out and do that :)

well we made it on our first camping trip 😆

FYI, As I’ll be going camping this weekend with the family, I won’t be able to make our weekly call. You guys are welcome to go ahead and discuss various topics and summarise for others to read up on later 👌

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/25/they-wont-accept-us-roma-refugees-forced-to-camp-at-prague-train-station

I am in the camp of wishing i could delete arbitrary twts.

I am in the camp of wishing i could delete arbitrary twts.

i wanna go camping

holy shit did the domekano anime cut like most of the literature club shit? i don’t remember them going camping & hina getting stung by a wasp

dreamt I was trapped at a sleepaway camp with Slavoj Zizek during a zombie pandemic

I feel like the simplified and cliched ideas about slashers that informed Scream kept me from discovering the strange and wonderful world of actually-good slashers like Sleepaway Camp, Happy Birthday to Me, Tourist Trap, etc. Like, a lot of them are surreal and moody and great.

How ‘Hobbit Camps’ Rebirthed Italian Fascism - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hobbit-camps-fascism-italy

After a weekend out in the woods, I’m down one flashlight, one camping chair, and one tent pole.

Finally saw some good temps for camping but then I just remembered that labor day is coming up and there will be idiots out there.

How ‘Hobbit Camps’ Rebirthed Italian Fascism - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hobbit-camps-fascism-italy